A community petition asks officials to let Jackie's remains return to Big Bear

A Change.org petition, "Preserve and return Jackie the bald eagle to Big Bear Valley," started by a local resident, Sandra Sehl, has drawn roughly 970 signatures asking wildlife officials to pause any irreversible handling of Jackie's remains and determine whether she could be preserved intact and returned to Big Bear Valley through an educational, scientific, conservation, or memorial arrangement, envisioning a permanent local exhibit telling her story. This is a citizen-organized effort, not a proposal from CDFW, USFWS, ORC, or FOBBV, and none of those agencies has publicly responded to it. The official plan CDFW announced on August 11 stands unchanged: following her necropsy, Jackie's remains are headed to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Eagle Repository, which distributes eagle remains to enrolled tribal members for religious and cultural use.